Then a pause and she turning on him the beginnings of a smile.
The pause each time she saw it now became longer, more deliberate, more inviting, more emptily unfilled.
He would show Nan now that she need fear no more pestering from him; she need not keep on talking without pause whenever they were alone together, which had been her old way of defence, and which she was beginning again now.
Until the year 1798 there had been no further advance in mechanical inventions for paper-making, but let us pause a moment for a consideration of the paper itself.
We have now described the process of paper-making up to the point where the stuff is formed into paper, and must pause for a description of the paper-machine itself.
Then after a brief pause he added: "Mrs. Ryder is in, too.
His work and--his friends keep him pretty busy," Jefferson had noted both thepause and the sarcasm, but he said nothing.
The speaker, to whom he had paid such scant attention, resumed his seat, and there followed a pause and an intense silence which was broken only by the pattering of the rain against the big windows.
He took a seat at the further end of the room and an awkwardpause followed.
My nature is so essentially generous that I can neverpause to reason.
But I have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause before I see the end.
Thus wandered they homeward; and often did she pause to add something more, and to give some new token of that deep and all unconcealed, but pure affection, which had taken so firm a hold of her young heart.
The sight had made the multitude pause and fall upon their knees before the church; and as Theodore approached he heard a voice exclaiming, "Let us die here!
Let your horse pause for a moment and eat," said the Hun who rode by his side.
But we must not pause to paint minutely the life and manners of the Huns.
Slow, slow, mighty wanderer, sink to thy rest, Yet pause but a moment to shed One warm look of love on the earth's dewy breast.
We must notpause thereon, for this is not intended for a book of description; and yet it was a wild, strange scene that he beheld, full of matter of disgust and sorrow, and yet not without interest either.
Yet pause on thy way, To the full height of day, For thy rising and setting are bless'd!
Oh, delay not, pause not, for the hesitation of terror more often points the dart and sharpens the sword that slays us, than the rashness of courage.
Let us pause on the brow of this hill, and recal a few of the stirring scenes which these aged hawthorns have overlooked.
As we are now in busy Lombard-street, so proverbial for its wealth, we will pause a few moments, and look at it through the dim haze of former years, how different from what it is now!
Let us pause for a few moments and examine the attitudes and countenances of those who are perusing the wills.
Every rounded pebble beside which the stream plays and murmurs, sends up its tiny voice through the bubbling silver, and fills up the pause in the great anthem which Nature hymns in His praise.
Here we shall pause for a while, and, as there is but little around us in the shape of "bricks and mortar" to arrest our attention, take a glance at the lights and shadows of busy life.
After this conquest, his political object is accomplished, the necessity for action ceases, and for him a pause ensues.
The pause in his walk indicated merely a pause in his thought.
A long pause followed, during which no sound stirred in the intense darkness.
He seemed to take it in faintly bit by bit, for after another long pause he asked even more deliberately, 'How did Magnus and Rickson ever come to hear of you, Hiram?
Why man should ever investigate the material universe without a tender and reverent, nay, a growing dependence on "the dear heart of God," we will not pause to inquire.
The war checked the enthusiasm I had succeeded in rousing; and I have not been able to pause in my special work of collecting and observing facts to stimulate it afresh, or to solicit personally the necessary means.
Not many are the ministers now who will pause to explain to Martha that she is careful and troubled about many things; and that really the visionary Mary, with her dreamy eyes, is choosing the good part.
I cannot do this at any length, after a pause of so many years; but a few names must be mentioned, a few facts recorded.
We put new laws upon the statute-book, and do not pause to wipe out the old; finding our protection in the public feeling and the public progress, if not in the traditions of the elders.
When the spoiler is abroad, he does not pause to choose his victims.
And hearing the negative, went on without a pause up the stone steps of the palace, through the wide courtyard, adown the passage, till he found Maharajah Bhim upon his throne.
The pause for hesitation, the sickening suffocation of one heart, the sudden sense of shyness, of loneliness, making one little mouth droop.
But here affairs take a turn which is fairly breathless, and which givespause for doubting Altunia's disinterested care for morality and les convenances.
A pause for consideration will show us that this was no ordinary conquest.
Then ensued a pause for parley, in which the Princess Fortunata had her share--a worthy share, as the following extracts will show.
Then, after a pause of ten seconds: "Le jeu est fait, messien.
On the brink of an extraordinary passage, I pause to make no fewer than three remarks in my own person: 1st.
The words came distinctly enunciated, cold and hard, a little pause separating the two syllables so that each cut like a stab.
He admitted with a sigh which absorbed a great deal of his cigarette smoke, which after an eloquent pause made pale exit through his nostrils, that he hadn't got over her effect on him yet.
Garth Conway would not have been himself but some very different man had there not been a considerablepause before he replied.
The other without a word and without a pause passed by on his way, leaving the poor shepherd gazing crestfallen after him.
There was a prolonged pause in the little bar, and Mr. Polly did some rapid thinking.
If you should unfortunately produce such a result, by all means pause and express regret, and if your horse is quiet, offer to ride for a few minutes beside the sufferer--for so she may be called.
As long as there seems to be any mental effort required on his part, pause after each step to caress and praise him.
There was a moment's pause, and during that moment's pause another lady came down the stairs.
A pause ensued, during which his feelings were plainly too deep for words.
A momentary pause followed his entrance--all four pairs of eyes were examining his countenance.
This made the prison, at all times a gloomy edifice, look more terrible and forbidding than it was; and hope seemed to pause before the grim and relentless frown of its portal.
There was a dead pause for a moment: then the welkin rang with a hearty hurrah!
He did not pause to make these reflections, but, with the quickness of perception peculiar to his profession, caught them on the instant; and then rendered his reply.
He passed on in silence, occasionally returning the salute of his officers, but did not pause until he reached a tent located upon a high bluff, and almost concealed from view by a thick growth of oaks.
The company did not pause for more than five hours, as it was daylight when the first halt was made.
Let us pause for a moment, and you can assist me in removing this dying maiden to the side of the stream.
Not an instant did he pause to consider, but rushed on toward the church.
Only a single pause was made during the journey, and that was at Vomb Lake when Akka joined her travelling companions, and called to them that the gray rats had been vanquished.
The big ram did not pause in front of the dead, but walked by them in silence.
The procession did not pause in any of the birch groves near the settlements, but marched on deep into the forest.
He was so terrified that he dared notpause for breath until he reached home.
The fire did pause as if before a gate that could stop it.
I said nothing, and, after a pauseof keen disappointment, I walked slowly on again towards the boat.
I raised my hand and called to her to pause just so, to be still, if she could, without stirring.
Eight horses had now been rendered useless, the arena was black and red with blood, in spite of the assiduous sprinkling of fresh sand, and there was a pause in the entertainment.
Think of your future, Smead, of your unsuspecting family at home, of your own welfare, and pause on the brink of destruction.
Mrs. Adair, however, did not move away, and an awkward pause followed.
This pause was the only sign of distress which she gave, and in a few moments she went on, speaking quite simply, without any of the affectations of grief.
The answer was uncompromising, but Durrance relied upon the pausewhich preceded it.
There was hardly a pause before Feversham answered:-- "He has cared for you a long while.
There was a momentarypause in the discussion, and Bibbs, thinking this a suitable opportunity for the delivery of his speech, stepped forward, and took up his stand in the doorway.
During a momentary pause in the hubbub which followed Thurston's address, Fletcher senior, with the usual smile upon his face, began to speak.
After a moment's pause he sneezed again, and had hardly done so before both doors were suddenly flung open, and with a cry of "Ah, you sneaks!
We will pause here to describe Mr Sudberry's family briefly.
Go, and pause every few minutes to shout, so that we may not lose you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
